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For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not…

— Maimouna Doucoure

We ask these young girls to grow up too fast. In the society where they grow up, they are asked to grow up too…

— Maimouna Doucoure

When young girls can get 400,000 likes by doing a sexy selfie... we have to offer them another way of being. To dream of…

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When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that women had…

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I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today's society. I…

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Streamers are a great way to get my stories out and share my messages with more people.

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I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and…

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We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the…

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My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop.

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When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

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Today you have that exposition of your body on social media and you also have this big competition of finding 'likes' and followers and…

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I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.

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I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should fight for…

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What happens is young girls see images of women being objectified, and the more the woman becomes an object the more followers and likes…

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We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.

— Maimouna Doucoure